NEW YORK (CBSMiami) — A YouTube star claims he was kicked off a Delta Air Lines flight after speaking Arabic on the plane.

Adam Saleh, who has two YouTube channels with nearly 4 million subscribers combined, said he was talking to his mother on the phone and with his friend who was on the flight with him when some passengers started complaining about him speaking Arabic.

Saleh has a history of posting prank videos designed to look like the real thing, including an infamously faked viral video that alleged to have shown anti-Muslim bias from the NYPD.

In 2014, Saleh’s video “RACIAL PROFILING EXPERIMENT!” showed him and friend staging a fight twice in front of an alleged police officer, once in Western street clothes, and once in Muslim clothes. The Smoking Gun revealed the hoax relatively quickly, but two years later, as of Wednesday morning, Saleh still does not indicate that the video was staged in its description.

“There was 20 people who were uncomfortable with me speaking Arabic, and my friend speaking Arabic,” Saleh told CBSN. “When the captain came he was telling me and my friend that he wants to speak to us outside… and at that moment I knew I was being kicked out.”

Saleh said it seemed the captain was “ashamed or embarrassed,” but still removed him and his friend off the flight.

“He didn’t want to get 20 people upset, he’d rather get two people upset,” Saleh said.

Delta issued a statement Wednesday saying, “Two customers were removed from this flight and later rebooked after a disturbance in the cabin resulted in more than 20 customers expressing their discomfort. We’re conducting a full review to understand what transpired. We are taking allegations of discrimination very seriously; our culture requires treating others with respect.”